Sentence examples for claret from inspiring English sources

He was also a great lover of claret.

It wasn't just 'wow', it was a thing of beauty: 'This is my team.' I can see it all now still, it was just washed in claret and blue.

They lost 1-0, which doesn't augur well, but more happily they stayed up anyway because Newcastle lost to a team in claret and blue – Aston Villa that time – to go down instead (when they went down the following year their demotion had already been sealed before their final game).

"It's claret.

Will it now be forbidden for claret makers in Bordeaux to age their wine in barrels?Um, no.

This can dissuade highly educated foreigners from staying in America, or entering it at all.Paul Brogan MontrealKnowing your wineSIR – As any serious "claret hedonist" knows, in 1855 a jury of Bordeaux elites, assembled at the invitation of Napoleon III, who wished to celebrate the superiority of all things French, published a classification system of top-rated Bordeaux wine chateaux.

Three grape varieties, the white Chardonnay, and two reds, the Cabernet Sauvignon used in claret, and Shiraz (better known under its French name of Syrah), now dominate Australian wine production.

When the Rapids finally reclaimed the trophy last year, the victory ended six years of Claret-and-Cobalt control.

It's the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.

Sports fan of the weekDavid Cameron declared that he was a fan of West Ham football team oddly, since in the past he has claimed to follow a different claret-and-blue-clad team, Aston Villa.

That has got regulators worried and rightly so.Dark matterBack in the days of claret-filled city lunches, life was so simple.